A winter blooming, small to large sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 10, narrowly lanceolate leaves on a leafy stem which graduate up into bracts that blooms in the spring on an elongate, bracteate raceme that is laxly 2 to 12 flowered and is from the Cape regions of South Africa in swampy regions and along streams at an altitude of 250 to 1500 meters that requires a fire to bring on blooming.